Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ff92662f9aff2eb2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

98.5 KB Created: 2021-07-07 01:23:52 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 126e4c73962b8296d13fad0fee6ce21b SHA-1: 7521bf4223ccf8244dbba6e49b9b6e4bb6e64134 SHA-256: ff92662f9aff2eb23495729d37864e4fd6ded52ba2a03039e8bd3fab90ad9f12
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple compromised websites and potentially disposable hosting. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the link farm suggest an attempt to distribute malicious content or engage in phishing, likely initiated via a spearphishing attachment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9928

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • PDF link farm points to compromised-WordPress upload storage medium PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM
    PDF contains multiple clickable links, across many distinct hosts, whose targets are random-slug files parked in the upload directories of vulnerable WordPress form plugins (FormCraft, Super Forms). This is the hallmark of the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains hosted on compromised sites. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • Small PDF is a non-clustered link farm on disposable hosting medium PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM
    Small PDF contains many clickable external PDF links spread thin across many distinct hosts (no single dominant host), corroborated by a utm_term SEO-redirector link and/or links parked on free/disposable content hosts. This is the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains, rather than a normal document citation pattern. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • External URI info PDF_URI
    PDF contains an external URL action
  • Object number defined twice with different bodies info PDF_DUPLICATE_OBJ_BODY_INCREMENTAL
    The same indirect object (N G) is defined more than once with different body bytes. First-wins and last-wins readers will resolve different content, which is a parser-confusion shape used by targeted PDFs. Body-only differences are common in benign incremental updates, so severity is raised only when the duplicate carries active content.
  • Embedded URL info EMBEDDED_URL
    One or more URLs were extracted from the document. The URL itself is not a detection — see the per-URL labels for which channel (macro, JS, link annotation, document body, ...) reached each URL.
    URL https://brusroom.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/09a021ab1244cd84bf5a07bd5afd93cd/40594995012.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://sacoorhealth.pt/site/upload/file/18184039266.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adbetelparaguay.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3d853249a557b783777ba0b2edfa54b4/sizodibupe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://caacoding.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b068f1e4695---95130059476.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wacee.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16096392608e1c---zugem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.reflectionuk.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/nvlt3djbkit1d8c8pi88n4u3s3/falidusojapo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hagepoorter.be/files/files/76314931748.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kovosluzba-praha.cz/res/file/44538971798.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sazjah.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160884ff94369d---66705970912.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.nrlandscapes.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6a6f0cee06b4630c6147c65336113ba7/10840425506.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://intelean.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a19fdf706ba---66114404155.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pogservice.ru/userfiles/file/76832936665.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://biirbeh.mn/images/content/file/tevuredigov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bascobrunswick.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160833ca75bfac---wufukobofujudiwej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alcc.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6u6l9c3rhufh0favj3aah2hhs3/vibugaxisa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://damsindia.org/admin/uploads/file/18964892342.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kissdocs.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607863457e659---namurowo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ohligschlaeger-berger.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b87a25a7144---68988149757.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.acetechnology.co.in/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/lbdl8hhdpjfetosie463i1sqil/melesokitononivotu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://recrute.fr/files/files/98345592358.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://3dprofi.net/images/uploads/file/89264386660.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mikepromedia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/kfpa0ael122fg8c6a44r81fmh0/relawadajuvapomuxuri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fashioncenterpoint.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4c56bad459d5a8dd1288c17b91f79056/fibufelom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://a2designbg.com/userfiles/file/45680030430.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=find+your+passion+25+questions+you+must+ask+yourself+pdfPDF link annotation
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#In PDF document text
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/In PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00011e43.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11E43 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0001365a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1365A 11344 bytes
SHA-256: b28549e4e8cd1010a2503c1c56cd89e7579e20c0d361925a09055ce8e50dfda3
font_02_sfnt_off000150ea.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x150EA 16700 bytes
SHA-256: 874007de0648ecc93f46bcf59208697339d48e05dd814297c4e7b8a1b36bf658